Hello Hal!
this is some great stuff...thanks so much. My E-l-liot-t :) family history seems to say that they had no idea why the middle class well established family wanted to come over enmass to America (Faithful Steward Elliotts)...seeming to indicate long time in Ireland.

I went to the Fermaugh lists of men who were in the landholders 'armies' and saw many of my supposed associated names...Elliotts, Cunninghams a few Lees, others who I see in the places where my relatives ended up. Its very interesting...

Greetings Elliott cousins,
Your guess is the same as the conclusion I have come to about my own first from-over-the-pond double-L-and double-T- Elliott ancestor (some time before the American Revolution). Many years ago ne of my many Elliott cousins in Wichita told me that our original Elliott ancestor came to New York from London as an indentured slave to a cobbler there. Nothing more than this has been found as to when and who he was. My oldest Elliott forbear in the U.S. is a William Elliott in Surry/Yadkin county, NC. He was born around 1742 (don't know where) was a district judge in Surry county (later Yadkin county) and was referred to as "Captain Elliott." The use of such a title appears to have been a reference to service in the Continental Army at some time during the Revolution (or maybe not - I've never found out. Either this Captain Elliott was the immigrant from London to New York or he was a son or grandson of the immigrant. One of his sons was
Washington Elliott (1784) who !
moved to Wayne county, Indiana in 1817. His son, Harrison Elliott was born in Wayne county in 1818 and moved to Putnam county, Indiana in 1854. He had seven sons and three daughters. One of them was my great grandfather, Charles Cornwallis Elliott (1853). In 1887 a county history book of Putnam county (Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana, Chicago, Lewis Publishing Company). In this book Harrison Elliott identified his ancestry as "English." This latter piece of information I've always wondered about. Was he English or not? Especially telling is the arrival of massive numbers of starving Irish into America since 1842 or so. The Irish at this time weren't very popular in America, so there was a motive to claim English ancestry. Still don't know conclusively. I took trip to Ireland about 15 years ago and uncovered some additional material on this problem. Driving south from Londonderry I passed the "Ulster-American
Theme Park" and went i!
n. In the souvenir shop I found a book on surnames. I opened it up a
nd found out that Elliott (spelled precisely that way) had been in Northern Ireland since the very beginning of the Ulster Plantations and were one of the most frequent surnames ln country Fermanagh (Robert Bell, The Book of Ulster Surnames, Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1988). I stayed at a guest house that night in Enniskillen, the seat of county Fermanagh. Driving through the main part of town I saw several shops with the name Elliott listed on them. I also saw a big yellow road grader with the name Elliott printed on it (instead of Mitsubishi, perhaps). At the guest house I had a very informative conversation with the proprietor who told me a little about the Elliotts in that part of Ireland. He said that a person's given names identified whether he was Protestant or Catholic, and that William was the most popular given name. He also showed me his county Fermanagh phone book and I saw that the most frequent name in it was McGuire (the original
Irish), Armstrong, Elli!
ott (double-L-and-Double-T), and Johnston. Around 1605 all three of these families had been rusticated from Liddesdale and the "Debatable Land" along the southwestern most corner of the border marches in Scotland by James I (this is all covered nicely and quite extensively in George MacDonald Fraser's The Steel Bonnets (London, HarperCollins,1995). I had been in Liddesdale a few years earlier and had found it puzzling that there were so few Elliots in the graveyards there (no Elliotts at all). Now I think I know why. Another thing I found out was a new take in the surname book, which repeated the little jingle about where the Eliots, Elliots, and Eliotts hailed from, but that no one knew where the Elliotts were from. The author concluded that those who spelled their names with double-L-and-double-T knew exactly where they came from - Enniskillen and county Fermagh, and they had all been there for hundreds of years. Other evidence that Harrison
Elliott was descended !
from Ulster Scots is that he and all his brothers and sisters were Pre
sbyterian, and that many of the Ulster Scots to began to immigrate to America, migrated first to London and were heavily recruited from there for passage to America after 1745 (John Wareling, Migration to London and Transatlantic Emigration of Indentured Servants, 1683-1775, Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 7, 1981.
Cheers, Hal Elliott (in Utah)

>>> "Charles Elliott" <> 02/01/08 1:56 PM >>>
Hi Vera,

It's always good to be in touch with a distant cousin.

Regarding the possible English connection, in a book written in 1900 about
Elkhart Indiana in the 1800's, there is a brief bio of my Thomas. It says he
claimed to be of English descent. Now, I can offer several explanations for
that. First, if he was of Scots-Irish descent he might not have wanted to
broadcast that, the Irish being not too popular in 19th century USA. Second,
there are lots of double l, double t Elliotts in and from England. Some
migrated directly down from Scotland, while other emigrated back from
Ireland after a few generations. Obviously, this would be resolved if I
could find the immigrant to America in my line.

I guess I really should do the DNA thing in hopes of learning some more. In
the meantime, I would like to take you up on your offer to help in Ohio. Two
things are missing from my Stark County data. First, it is possible that
Andrew Elliott (Thomas' father) may have died on their arrival in Ohio from
PA in the early 1820's. Some kind of death record would be very helpful.
Also, Thomas or the other of Andrew's sons (see below) surely bought or
rented land to farm in the 1820's, 1830's and 1840's. There might even be a
land sale before they left for Indiana. Do you know of a source for this old
info?

Sorry Chuck,
I have monitered this list so long I forget with whom I corresponded! :) I
tend to have long gaps between searching too again sorry.

Have I provided you with some of my line? I live near Stark county now is
there anything I can do to help you? My relatives started in Wash Co PA and
then moved to Jefferson then to Wayne co then to IA...

Do you find Andrew in any land documents or tax records prior to 1800?
Probably no eh? I have to say I've not encountered very many Andrew's
period....My Thomas would have been dead by the time yours moved to OH...
The brothers must not have been close as my fam history says they lived too
far away to get to know each other (the familys) and for a long time I
thought that the brothers had emigrated together but after reading and
rereading my family history I am now convinced that there is no proof that I
am correct in that suposition.

Just that Charles Elliott the famous preacher was a son of one of
them...which I think is not true because my understanding is that THAT
Charles was one of Isabella Blaine Elliotts children...so its a connundrum
that I think I will never figure out. Unfortunately I cannot find ship
records on Thomas/Margaret's immigration or find William/Andrew.

Well, I will put your records in my database so that maybe I wont' bother
you again!! :) I'll look thru my Elliott PA stuff and see if I have anything
...

thanks Chuck, and I have to say you are the closest datewise and with a
mysterious past that shows no long VA/NY/NC history of being in US that it
makes me think that maybe your Andrew might be my Andrew especially with the
Wm, Charles, Thomas names. The female names are different tho...but where
did the Nolan name come from? THAT makes me think he was English
Elliott...gad...:) oh well...

have you had a DNA test? Since I have no male Elliotts that I can find I
will have to do the female one at some point in time...

Where dates are missing, I haven't a clue. I found Thomas and William B. on
several mid1800 Indiana census records, starting 1850. I have not found
Andrew the father on any census. Indications are that the family moved from
PA to OH about 1823, either just before or just after Andrew died. Thomas
married Ann (or Anna) on 14 Aug 1828 in Stark Cty, OH. Thomas moved his
family to Elkhart Cty, IN, about 1843, based on birthplaces of his children.

It is very interesting to see the repeated use of the names Andrew, Thomas
and William. Happy hunting.

ahhhh Charles I am looking for an Andrew Elliott who immigrated sometime in
late 1700's to PA and would have been my Thomas' brother..he would have been
a Methodist...might we have a match? Was your Thomas a 3rd son? :)

I think the dates are good...my Thomas died in 1817 to 1818 and would have
been the Middle brother Andrew being younger and William being older...

Regarding the posting from 2gleneyre, the name Thomas Elliott jumped out at
me. Unfortunately, my Thomas Elliott was born in 1807 in York County,
Pennsylvania. He was my GGGgrandfather. I wonder if 2gleneyre would share
his recent line with us to see if we are related in the last 200 years.
Current data indicates that my Thomas' father was named Andrew Elliott, who
probably died in the early 1820's in PA. I do have a list of likely siblings
of Thomas to share. If 2gleneyre prefers to contact me directly, my email
address is .

Aye, Chuck Elliott

Fairfield, CA

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